IRELAND
The Journal
MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES BARELY broke even and were not run on a commercial or even profitable basis, the report by Senator Martin McAleese has said.
The report notes that despite a common perception that the laundries were highly profitable, this was rarely the case.
It found that laundries would have been unable to survive financially if they had not received income through donations, bequests and financial support from the State.
The figures were reached by using records from the time which were kept by the religious organisations involved in the laundries and which were given to the investigating committee behind the report.
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